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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-10-24

The elections in the several states
this fall will have q most important
bearing upon the national election of
1888. The vote of the great parties,
one of which must succeed, will be
watched with unusual interest for
comparative loss and gains. The
next votes of interest to the public
will be those cast by the labor move
ment and the prohibitionists in the
doubtful states. 1t does not appear
from present indications that either
the third party or the George move
ment are having much of a boom.
The coming elections lack the eXcit-
ING influences in several states
which centre upon the choice of
full list of state officers. There is
nothing directly bearing upon nation
al issues in the vote, yet the returns
viii be studied with great care to CT
pher out the relative strength of the
principal contestants. On the No
vember verdict will largely hang the
fate of the nominations. A decided
victory for the republicans in New
York will ieopardize the nomination
for the second time of Mr.. Cleveland,
and may put the republican nominal
ton in the hands of the New York
delegation to the republican national
convention. Therefore all eyes are
on New York again Windsor Co.
Journal.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-10-24
Sta Ge News items.

The fines and costs imposed at the pres
ent term of Rutland county court will
amount to over $4,000, most of them be-
ing liquor fines.
About $50 900 have been expended in
Rutland this year for building. In the
same time about 5000 900 have been spent
for the same purpose in Burlington
An invalid residing in West Rutland
was greatly encouraged by the arrival of
a sister and eleven children, who came To
assist her in her sickness
E. w. Stowe of Ripton was suffocated
by gas, in his room at the Berwick House,
Rutland. He retired a little after mid
night, and was found dead at O'Clock
the next morning
The directors of the st. Adams base
ball club held a meeting the other evening
and found that the expenditures had been
81 800 more than the receipts but the
club won the pennant.
A canal boat has been loaded with pota-
toes at the Fisk wharf, Isle La Motto. for
which 30 cents per bushel were paid, ex-
cept some that had been contracted early
in the season at Is cents.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-10-24

Recent dispatches from India rep
resent terrible state of affairs in
the northwest provinces on account
of the ravages of cholera. Accord
ing to the official reports there were
30. 80 fatal cases of the disease dur
inc the month Of August. When it
Is remembered that the population of
these provinces is very dense and
that no such thing as sanitary laws
are known among them, it is not
matter of wonder that the cholera
should find a great number of viz
tins. The real wonder is that any
escape.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-10-24
On a Mission OF Peace.

There came from England by
steamer a few days ago, three men of
high repute in that country who are
charged with an extraordinary mis-
sion to ours. They are Sir John
Swinburne, O. V. Morgan and Hal
lev Stewart, members of the British
Parliament, and they come in behalf
of two hundred and fifty members of
that body to plead for lasting peace
between the United States and Great
Britain.
Peace congresses and anti-war So
cieties are not new things by any
means, but all that such organiza-
tions have done is insignificant COM
pared with this movement. 1t is. in
fact, tangible and hopeful crystal
lizatiOn Of the best thought of the two
greatest nations in the world in favor
of international arbitration as a sub
stitute for war. When two hundred
and fifty members Of the British Par
Lament 90 so far as to appeal to the
American congress for legislation in
this direction, the subject is removed
from the domain of possibility to the
borders of probability land the vision
airy schemes of amiable cranks be-
come food for the thought of states
men.
The personnel, as well as the num-
Der of the peace-loving members of
Parliament cOmmends the matter to
attention. The gentlemen named
above are not very well known in
in this country, but they are recog-
nized at home as enlightened, liberal
and philanthropic legislators, who
speak the voice of the British work
ingmen. They will be joined by Sir
Lyon Playfair, Lord Hershell, Cabel
Wright, Sir George Campbell and
by three official delegates of the
Trades Union Congress. 1t is also
noteworthy that nearly every member
of the commission is a Gladstonian
Home Ruler.
The people of the United States
will no doubt receive this appeal in
the fraternal spirit in which it is
made. If the British, with their ex-
perience in arbitration in the matter
of the Alabama claims, can take the
initiative and ask the application of
the same methods for the settlement
of all differences that may arise be-
tween US and them, it is certainly not
for us to withhold our hands. The
greatest of our soldiers, General
Grant, left on record his hope that
what is now asked should be done.
President Cleveland could not do bet
ter than to urge congress to grant
the PRAYER Of our friends from across
the sea. Such a treaty of peace as
it contemplates would be browning
glory for any administration
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-10-24

Norman w. Gregg, formerly of Stowe.
a locomotive engineer since he has been
Vest. and resident at Gallon. ohio had
his head severed from his body in a col
li>ion between an express train he was
running and wild" engine.
The cattle commissioners do not find it
necessary to slaughter any more Orwell
cattle on account of plcuro-pneumonia
The cattle of l.. Narney of Bristol
that were killed have been appraised at
$50 per head, or Il total OF S327.
The standing wood and timber on lot
% in Mendon, consisting of 385 acres. be-
longing to the University of Vermont,
was sold at auction last Wednesday af-
ternoon for So 400, TO Griffith & Mcintyre
of Dandy. The purchasers have ten years
to get off the wood.
A dispatch from Bellows Falls says
that statistics just gathered bearing upon
the crime of inceudiarism i'm the United
States by letters addressed to prison war
dens give returns from thirty states and
territories, in which out of 3l.I76 CON
victs $40 are imprisoned for arson or in
cendiarism- About y per cent in Yer
mont is the highest proportion of any
Wallingford boasts of beds of ice that
outIast the heat of July and August. The
ice-beds are two miles from the village, at
the foot of one of the high mountains of
the Green Mountain range. On descend
iDf inf no l,,
cones very cold At the bottom is
small brook, whose waters are like ice
water. Here ice is found in large guam
titles in July and August, when the place
has many visitors.
The 25th annual session Of the Grand
Lodge of Vt, l. O. G. T., was held at
West Randolph the 18th and 18th inst. 1t
was pleasant and harmonious session,
well attended and enthusiastic and much
credit is due Arcadia Lodge and the eX-
cellent temperance hotel, kept by Buel
Brothers. The following are the officers
elected G. G. T., q. Fl. Smalley, Lyn-
donville; q. c., Geo. H. Wattles, Ben
nington; q. V. r., Mrs. o. S Wiley,
cllttI Oil VI oSO', - L. oOAA' WI vi
field q. T., Jas. Barton, Burlington;
G. 5. j. T., Mrs. l.. c. Grandy, New
port; q. Chaplain. Rev Q. ID. Clapp,
Waitsfeld @. NJ, VIM. Embury, st. Al
bans; q. G., Mrs. S. Nj. Gould, Randolph;
G. s., w. A. Graham, St. Johnsbury;
G. A. S., c. II. Storrs, Island Pond; q.
d. NJ, Mrs. Turner, Middlebury; p. g.
c. T., Frank Plumley, Esq, Mortified;
d. r. w. G. T., r. o. Sturtevant, Esq.
Swanton. A special fund was pledged for
the purpose of putting an organizer and
lecturer into the field, and the outlook is
encouraging for prosperous year. The
next session is to be held at Hydepark,
the second Wednesday in Oct, 1888.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-10-24

The Springfield Repujijcow says
that after bequeathlng 100000 70
his family and giving $4,000 to
Smith college and 81 ZOO to the vii
Iage library, the late ex-Gov., VIM.
b. Washburn, divided the residue Of
his estate-the whole property being
estimated at from $780, 900 to $780,
OOO-between the American Board,
the Home Missionary Society of New
York and the American Missionary
Association. This windfall will he
welcomed in the rooms of the secre-
taries at Boston, especially since it
has leaked out that the American
Board has lost a legacy from the late
Alpheus Hardy, which was condition
ed on a reversal of Secretary Alden's
policy of obstruction.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-10-24

1t is highly probable that another
railroad disaster of signal horror has
been averted by the precaution of
sending a pilot train in advance of
the train bearing the president and
his companions. When the engineer
of this vanguard was passing tres
tie between Bonneville and Jones'
boro, Arkansas, on Saturday morn
ing, he discovered that the trestle-
work was on fire. 1t was too late to
stop his engine before crossing the
burning section, but the trestle was
fortunately still strong enough to bear
the weight of the engine. As soon
as possible he backed the train off
the trestle, and with the assistance of
the trainmen and some passengers
succeeded in putting out the fire. 1t
was found that the flames had not
consumed the wood sufficiently to
render the passage of trains unsafe,
but what the result might have been
but for this precaution is frightful
to think of.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-10-24

In view of the increasing CONNER
ciaI relations between this country
and Mexico the position of United
States minister to that country is
an important one. The death Of
Judge Manning gives the president
an opportunity to appoint to the va
cant place an able, wide awake man.
VII VIII not only represent this coun-
try with dignity, but who will also
be constantly on the alert for our
business interests. 1t is to he hoped
that he will also be able to resist
excessive Mexican hospitality, and
that he will not lose his balance in
the high altitude Of the Mexican
capital.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-10-24
In Minneapolis, Mimi, Thursd;

In Minneapolis, Mimi, Thursd;
night, a mob led by Mayor Anne
burned in efiigy A. J. Blethen, p
prietor Of the Tribune of that eli
which had printed an editorial con
tanning several structures on the pre-
ent administration and the mannc'
of conducting the present ''tour f.
votes of the president, and refc.-
ring in uncompIimentary terms to
Mrs. Cleveland, saying among other
things, ''It is hard to have respect
for woman who would sell herself
to so gross and Tepulsive a man u
Grover Cleveland"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-10-24

When Professor Mendalieff was
descending in his milstary balloon
near Moscow, after observing the re
cent eclipse, several peasants ran out
of the village of OdakOff with guns to
shoot 1.-The evil beast that darkened
the face of the sun We smile at
the Salvadorians who regarded CO.
lumbus' ships as great winged birds
from heaven :" but not all the ignor-
ance and superstition are peculiar to
savages. Odakoff has a village
school. but evidently something still
remains to be learned in its course of
Christian at Work.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-10-24
Montreal is talking Of an elevat,

railroad and instead of using steam
a the motive power it is proposed to
use the electric motor, which will do
away with all noise. The douI 9
track system will not be used either,
but the cars are to be balanced on a
center rail with guide rails on each
side. 1t will. therefore, be necesarv
to have but one row of posts to su
port a track. The aerial road bed viii
be small and will combine lightne-S
with strength.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-10-24

For the benefit Of those whose attention has not
been attracted to the Mutual Life the following in
formation Is published 1t is the oldest Company
in the United States. It is the largest Company in
the world its assets amounting to more than one
hundred end fifteen millions Il is the most profit
able Company, having paid in dividends alone over
seventy two millions. It's total payments 10 policy
holders since organization aggregate over two
hundred and forty millions Of dollars or
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-10-24

The report of challenge for the
Americas cup from the Royal Nova
Scotia yacht squadron is denied by
John Harvey, the naval architect who
was named as the designer of the
challenging yacht Mr.. Harvey de-
signed the schooner Miranda, which
was beaten by MIR Burgess Sachem,
and he has produced drawings Of a
sloop which he thinks will beat the
Thistle; but has not yet started for
the Americas cup, The London
Field, however, announces that Mr.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-10-24

licit disabling. Cromwell is also said
to have a dark record. The singular
statement is made by yonng Stain
that he was driven to make the con-
fession by the repeated visitations to
him of the supposed ghost of Cashier
RarTOn
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-10-24

The New York Tribune finds as 4
result of a careful canvass of the
country, that s25O,OO a year is ex-
pended by Grand Army Posts in aid
of poor and suffering comrades, while
the unrecorded charities of individ-
uals are believed to amount to as
much more. The Posts express
themselves almost unanimously in
favor Of dependent pension bill.
while many of them favor a service
pension bill, to apply when the
soldier reaches the age of %
or 60, and some want special
pensions for those who were in rebel
prisons. The Tribune concludes
from the information it gathers, that
more than 10000 veterans would
get the benefit of dependent bill.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-10-24

The Boston x Maine railroad cor
pOration which is gradually absorb
ing all the roads in northern New
England now controls 1889 miles of
track. The Boston Post speaks of
the Concord, Passumpsic, Connecti-
cut River and Fitchburgh roads as
probable additions, which would
bring the mileage up to 2532, and
adds: If the Jj2 miles of the Cen
trail Vermont system should be put
in, as ultimately may be the case, we
have a system comprising 3Oo4 miles
of road and covering in extent the
entire northern portion of New En-
gland and reaching even into the
provinces. This is a railroad system
that will take rank with the famous
systems of the west, and that with a
single exception will be the largest
system east of the Mississippi river"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-10-24

Jameson, owner of the Trek, has COM
municated with the New Y DIRK yacht
club, announcing his purpose of chal-
longing for the cup as soon as he can
have a boat built for the purpose.
Mr.. Jameson is an Irishman, and in
tends that his yacht shall be designed,
built and manned by Irishmen.
Two strikes are now in progress in
\. \. city The printers have struck
because of the refusal of the publish
ers to adopt a scale OF prices submit
ted by the printers union, and to
discharge from their employ all non
unionists. The chandelier makers
and brass workers have struck be-
cause their employers have refused to
observe the Saturday half holiday the
wear round. On Saturday there were
five hundred printers on strike and
nearly one thousand brass workers.
The State Board of Arbitration has
been in the city during the week en-
deavoring to effect a settlement OF
the troubles, but have been unable to
do so. A large number of nOn-unlOn
printers have been brought into the
CITY from other places, and the pros
poets are that the struggle will be a
long and bitter one.
In an exhaustive article on Yer
mont schools in the Boston Journal,
c. :. Forbes thus summarizes lot
of conclusions from mass of facts
and figures, as to the condition of the
schools of Vermont: That less than
one-half the children Of school age
in the state are constant attendants
at the public schools that the dis
trict schools in the state are poorer
and weaker than ever before that
starvation wages are paid the teach
ers of the public schools, that i'll
many districts no regular school is
maintained; that numerous school
houses are unfit for occupancy. This
certainly is a bad showing. Among
the remedies suggested are the adop-
ton of the town system of schools
for the state; the more efficient su-
pervision Of schools free textbooks,
and an effective compulsory educa-
ton law.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-10-24
Four Hundred Tons Of Gold

Watch this column for "Scraps from the current
History of the Mutual Life Insurance Company o.
New York"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-10-24
Scraps from the Current History Of
the Mutual Life Insurance Go,
Of Now York.
WONDERS IN FINANCE =

POLICY No % a32 issued on the life Of rroHi-
nent BROOKLYN merchant. became rluim Boo Fchru.
ary, 1857 The insured Away paid premium boa
ash, anu the re>ult thoroughly drm'nst I"tes tlt
INSTABILITY ot leaving te dividends ~ the han"~
Of thr ompanN.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-10-24

Coy. sawyers veto of the Hazen
bill caused Boston ( Lowell stock to
drop to l54 Wednesday.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-10-24
Black WOrsteds.
wICATS
Trunks, Bags. and ValiSes,
Flannel Shirts of All Kinds.

New Samples from Dover Clothing Cos. aHd Wp
guarantee "a IT, Have made Au suits thIs mII.
Agency tor Lewaudo's French nys House.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-10-24

Pc -. Life. june Is, 1850 Premium, 50 so
Semi-Aunually.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-03-11
Pursued by His Victims Ghost.
THE BRIDGEPORT MURDERER RETURNS FROM CHICAGO
AND SURRENDERED

jacob Brown. the wife murderer, Is behind the
bars at Bridgeport, Conn. Last Tuesday night he
Shot and killed his wife and fed to ChicaQo Sum
day morning Brown surrendered himself up to
Chief Marsh, OF Bridgeport. He was seen to Jump
from train from New York as it was entering the
city rapidly. He fell into snow drift and ESCAPED
injury. He entered the station house In
q state OF nervous excitement. exclajmin0:
II have come back; could not stay away
any longer; my conscience would not let
me-" Brown handed over his revolver. q
few cartridges, razor and knife He asked for
newspaper containing an account OF his wtfe's
1uneral ana was given one. Then he was locked
up. From Browns account Of himself 1t appears
tnat ne went nome TO supper last Tuesday evening
somewhat under the influence OF uouor he and
his wife began TO quarrel They threw table fur.
niture at each other and he was struck on the
head and cut. In his fury he rushed into his bed
room, procured his revolver and cominenced to
IRE upon his wife. He rushed back into the bed
room, obtained $50 and fled. As he missed his
wife's body In the doorway he thou0ht
sne TOO, had fed He reloaded his re-
yolver - and caught the lO:l6 train for
New Haven. Arriving In that city he
SnaveQ Oh ms SIDE Wh1Skers. He arrived OF Boston
wednesday morning, and went thence to Chicago,
arriving there THURSDAY night He had had no
sleep, except on the trainR and ut rst determined
to blow his brains out. Inc picture Of his vile
was constantly before his eyes, He saw her as
she danced at the last bali they attended and
then ne saw her bleeding wouuds Brown is q
nuiatto, and married his wife in Brooklyn about
three years ago. She was West Indian and O
young woman OF considerable refinement She
WAS = oressmaker TO some society ladies. she was
buried last Friday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-03-11
Chicago Bucket shops.

From the Chicago Mail.
The biggest winning made in any Of the bucket
shops in single day during this pork corner has
been s13 800 There have been bigger stories told,
but the manager OF the biggest bucket shop here
gave these figures to the writer yesterday. He
knows whereof he speaks, for private wire en-
circles all these shops, and they are as closely
allied as the pool rooms are In the height or the
racing season. 1t has been q nervy thing for the
bucket shops to run "wtde open" In this pork deal
as they have. and their courage probably has been
due largely to the fact that they were as much Ia
the dark over the corner as anybody else. They
were not able to settle definitely that there was
corner so long as they were In that frame OF
mind they did not hesitate to take any bets that
anybody wanted to offer. for the bucket shop theO-
ries are that because man thinks he knows a
thing is no reason why he does, and that q man
with pointer is not nearly SO dangerous q char
acter as he thinks he is
II there was a faro bank that gave out publicly
that it would allow anybody TO bet anything from
$50 to $4,000 on the turn OF card, 1t would
attract gamblers here from all over creation. In
fact house that advertiseS that 1t will allow q
man to bet $3.50 the turn OF card Is considered
a shining mark among the professionals. But so
far the large bucket shops in this city have actu
ally allowed their customers to bet any sum
$4,000. II they so deSired-On the course Of pork;
and the worst slap any OF them has gotten SO far
has been the loss of S13, 800 TO lucky gambler.
more than it took in That loss was not comparable
to the ones 1t received last November when the
whole list OF stocks at New York was advancing.
In q single day in that month the same concern
which lost $14 500 on pork Monday lost $40 600 on
stocks
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-03-11
THE PHlLADELPHuAP POST OFFICE.
Civil Service COmmissiOners Lyman
and Oberly Return.


Civil Service Commissioners Lyman and oberiy
were in there ofices to-day, having returned nom
Philadelphia, where for several days they have
been engaged in Investigating charges against
Postmaster Harrity, relating to appointments in
his Office. They will return to Philadelphia early
next week and resume the investigation. Mean.
while Postmaster Harrity is to prepare state
ment concerning his administration OF the once.
including lists of appointments and removals, the
names OF persons employed in the ONCE
when he took possession, OF those now employed,
how many appointments he has made to Eek
cepted places,' &c. The commissioners took
considerable testimony, all OF which was taken
down by stenographer, and viii be published
with the report OF their conclusions in the matter.
MI Lyman said to-day that the investigation
had taken wide scope, the commissioners having
found 1t desirable to extend II. owing 70 the ex.
cited state of public feeling In Philadelphia, due
to large extent to the attitude OF the press to-
wards Mr.. Harrtty. There had been some
hostility to the commissioner he said, on the
part OF partisan newspapers because the
investigation was q secret one. They asserted
that the result would be white-washing report
Inc commissioners thought 1t advisable to con-
Duct their investigation with closed doors, AZ the
objects which they sought to obtain might other
wise DE defeated. But they proposed to publish
All the testimony, so that anyone could see on
what their conclusions are based. "Of course, I"
Sald Mr. Lyman, 81 can say nothing as TO what
the result OF the investigation will be-" When the
commissioners return TO Philadelphia next week
they may take additional testimony, II 1t Is found
That points In Mr.. Harrty's statement require 1t.